Meijer did 4,60 in the first attempt. Earlier in the qualification she did ingångshöjden 4,40 in the second jump. She wanted to jump as few jumps as possible in qualifying to save his foot, which she injured in last year.
” I am very pleased. It was not pretty, but it doesn’t matter, what counts is that I take it, ” she says to SVT.
Angelica Bengtsson has been a bronze medalist at the last two european CHAMPIONSHIP races indoors. But in Glasgow, it took the stop already in the qualifying.
4,40 in the first attempt, then got proper problems 4,50. Three straight demolitions and her EM was over.
– I have not managed to activate the arms, the arms tend to be my strength. But I managed not to relax the nervous system there, ” she says.
Heavy Bengtsson for scarce a week ago, struck with the Swedish record when she took 4,81 during a stavgala in France.
” I had a high belief in myself. Sometimes you have to accept that it is impossible and deleted from it, says Bengtsson.
the last time it was a Swedish skrällbrons in the 60 meters by Austin Hamilton. In this year’s CHAMPIONSHIP is Hamilton through to the semis together with Henrik Larsson.
In Glasgow, it is Henrik Larsson, who is probably the biggest Swedish hope in tonight’s semifinals and perhaps finals. He ran the fastest of all the swedes in the year, sek 6.60.
In the trials, he was second in his heat of 6,72.
” It felt quite okay. I am no spirited morgonmänniska, tend to be really tough in the mornings, so now I’m tired in both head and body. It is nice to have this race out of the way, ” says 19-year-old.
I took out everything I had, there are more left. Nice to semifinals and finals are in the evening.
the thought that the trials went in the earliest team.
– I prefer to run in the evenings, ” he says after having been runner-up in the försöksheatet on 6,76, 14 hundredths of their personal record as he set a few weeks ago.
In the semifinal he intends to put the start better.
” It has been a bit of a problem in years, but I was not very late in the attempt.
Odain Rose, the last four on the inside CHAMPIONSHIP, was eliminated with 6,88 in the experiments.
In the women’s 60 metres is Irene Ekelund on to the semifinals after having been third in his heat at 7,38. Elin Östlund, however, is knocked out after running on 7,44.
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